Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |
| 2 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 3 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 4 | The sun on my back was warm , but the February nights were still near zero and I was wearing only a sweater . |
| 5 | After landing on Kiwi soil , the Kerryman smiled : ‘ I thought I was seeing double the airport we touched down at was called Kerikeri ! ’ |
| 6 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 7 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was thinking maybe a Mafia don who 'd turned State 's Evidence against his Family . ’ |
| 9 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 10 | I was telling about a dozen girls what would happen to them when they arrived at RAF Wilmslow . |
| 11 | I was to write home every week . |
| 12 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 13 | I was weighed once a week , but never told my weight . |
| 14 | No , but it all adds up I was sitting there the other day adding up your things |
| 15 | I was answering precisely the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
| 16 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 17 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 18 | Well , it really speeded things up and I was making quite a bit more , but I missed the chat . |
| 19 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 20 | I was doing exactly the same . |
| 21 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 22 | ‘ You know , Yuan , I was standing here the night you were born . |
| 23 | I was standing there the other night |
| 24 | I was allowed only a small chamfer . |
| 25 | Selling shares for gain should not be confused with giving part of your family business to the next generation , which was made easier a few years back under the inheritance tax rules . |
| 26 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 27 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 28 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 29 | BETWEEN 1945 , WHEN the war ended , and 1956 when the first Reichmann son , Edward , appeared in Canada , Samuel engaged in a programme of frenzied European activity , the purpose of which was to gather together the early Reichmann millions . |
| 30 | It was the Grunwick dispute which was to show conclusively the effectiveness of ACAS , hailed till then as ‘ a concession to the workers ’ . |